On Friday, September 22, 2017 at 6:25:51 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2017-09-22 3:41 PM, Bruce wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 15:25:51 -0400, jmcquown >
> > wrote:
>
> >> Yeah, sure. And the Chinese man who still owns it will either raise the
> >> price or sell it to someone else after letting John pay to repair
> >> everything.
> >
> > Let's just wait and see. If John is right, the house will be his on
> > Oct 31, no matter what. Strange that he has to pay for fixing it up
> > before it's legally his, but anyway. Different countries/states,
> > different laws, I guess.
> >
>
> Excuse me if I don't retain all the information that has been spewed
> about his plans to become a slum landlord but I seem to recall that the
> closing date was originally supposed to be a few months ago.
>
> I have limited personal experience in real estate deals, but sales are
> usually conditional on the vendor being responsible for repairs.

Eh. You can write a sales contract any way you want. How else would
flippers manage it?

Cindy Hamilton